The F-box cofactor UFO redirects the LEAFY floral regulator to novel cis-elements biorxiv.org/content/10.110… > SO excited to see LFY/UFO together on DNA! GREAT work from Francois Parcy's group. Dream that I had in my Ph.D. days come true.

Two articles in Science from the Chai and Parker groups and colleagues in China find small molecule missing links in plant immunity @henni_laessle Giuliana Hessler Dongli Yu Junli Wang Jan Gebauer MPIPZ Cologne #plantscience #missinglinkidentified #youbetterknowEDS1now

Links to the papers below 👇👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A biochemical perspective of immune networks—Jane Parker Parker Lab highlighting the massive recent advances in #NLRbiology #WeigelFest science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

#WeigelFest reunion! Eunyoung Chae Cristina Barragan

I am very happy to share the last results from my little team in Halle (does not exist anymore) in NPH. tinyurl.com/yc5jf7vw A bit of a potpourri... we looked at PRR and TNL functions in Nbenth. Different from At, we do not detect a role of EDS1 complexes in Nb PRR signaling.

Very happy to see our preprint ‘Concerted expansion and contraction of immune receptor gene repertoires in plant genomes’ now out Nature Plants nature.com/articles/s4147… 🟪Summary thread of the updates:

Our paper with work by Simon Snoeck and @anthonygkgarcia is out today in eLife - the journal ! We describe the evolution of herbivore peptide recognition by a plant immune receptor, and resurrect the sequence of the ancestral gene from ~28 million years ago. elifesciences.org/articles/81050

#TansleyInsight: Revisiting the relationship between turgor pressure and plant cell growth 📖 ow.ly/QIEj50N73ZR

Proud of this one -- our first ever MPMI Journal paper and with amazing undergrad-technician first author, @anthonygkgarcia Previous tweet thread about the paper is below

Here I share a software that Rachelle Lee wrote to design gRNAs with pangenome resources: Generating minimum set of gRNA to cover multiple targets in multiple genomes with MINORg pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36919598/ Multiplexing vectors are all available at Addgene, thanks to Jinge Wang.

Fantastic work, great talk by Edwige Moyroud #Edwige_M on Hibiscus petal development at our weekly colloquium NUS Biological Sciences. Mind blowing work on Proximal-distal axis formation and more.

delighted to be able to report the completion of a long-running project to identify ATR2, the downy mildew effector recognised by the first defined paired NLRs, RPP2A and RPP2B. It's a non-canonical RxLR-like effector, with WY domains Mahmut Tör biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Resurrected protease!! Our good ol' PIP1 is saved from the nasty potato blight pathogen... Miaoying Tian >> Enhanced late blight resistance by engineering an EpiC2B-insensitive immune protease. Mariana Schuster et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Both Lida and Jiorgos were postdocs with Sophien Kamoun - a network of wonderful colleagues in itself

Our latest work led by Dr. Wan Wei-Lin in my lab in Singapore and Dr. Gijeong Kim from Ji-Joon Song's lab at KAIST. Structure determinants of DANGEROUS MIX 3, an alpha/beta hydrolase, for triggering NLR-mediated genetic incompatibility in plants biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Welcome to new Oxford Biology Associate Professor of Plant Pathology and Tutorial Fellow Magdalen College - Dr Eunyoung Chae. Find out more about Eunyoung and her research here: bit.ly/40dGe8t

Embracing the challenges ahead: a new chapter for the plant cell leadership ASPB The Plant Cell academic.oup.com/plcell/article…